Tweet More big businesses have gotten comfortable on public clouds over the past few months, while their data center budgets have not been growing as much as cloud providers’ budgets, according to the results of a survey out Thursday. That means more business could be flowing to companies that supply gear to cloud providers, and companies that support cloud deployments. But a little thing called PRISM could stave off these…

Tweet Dallas-based startup BookShout, which is backed by book distribution company Ingram Content Group’s CEO John R. Ingram and has gone through a number of iterations since its founding in 2010, is doing something that may make Amazon and Barnes & Noble mad: It is importing books that customers have purchased on Nook and Kindle into its own Android, iOS and web apps. BookShout is doing this with the support…

Tweet Less than a year ago, it looked like CityPockets, a NY-based startup that organizes daily deals and provides a secondary market for them, was in a groove. It scored $ 750,00 in new funding, made an acquisition and was rolling out product enhancements. But this week, the company said it was shutting down and pivoting to a new opportunity in social couponing. Amid concerns over Groupon’s health and debates…

Tweet Less than a month after being acquired Zynga OMGPOP is well on its way to being integrated into the giant game maker’s technology roadmap, according to Jason Pearlman, CTO of OMGPOP. Draw Something, the mobile game sensation that put OMGPOP on the map, is getting new perks this week, including an easy undo feature, two-click posting of drawings to Facebook and Twitter, and messaging that lets users annotate their…